Installing the Regency Theme

1. Download Wordpress and WooCommerce Plugin

FIRST, Regency is a Wordpress theme, so make sure you have already installed Wordpress 4.0 or higher. If you haven’t already done this, go to Wordpress.org for a free download and follow their installation instructions.

SECOND, Regency is also a WooCommerce theme, so you will need to install the WooCommerce Plugin to your Wordpress installation. Click here: WooCommerce Plugin.

2. Download Regency Theme

Download the Regency theme from your ThemeForest account downloads page and save it to your desktop. This is how the file will look.*Note – This IS NOT the file you will upload to your Wordpress installation. The file you need must be UNZIPPED before uploading.

4. Upload Regency Theme Shop

a. Via Wordpress – Log into your Wordpress site.
When you get to your dashboard, scroll down the left sidebar to the Appearance-panel and hover over or click on “Appearance”. You will immediately see a drop-down list like the one in the visual below:
Click on “Themes” and you will see a button – click “Add New”.
Than click on “Upload Theme”, and this is what you will see.Now you are ready to upload the Regency file that you unzipped earlier. Click “Browse” and find the Regency file on your desktop.

Click the Regency file, then click “open”. The file name will appear in the browse box.
Click “install now” and wait for the installation message. *Note: The installation will probably take a few minutes, so please be patient.

When the installation is finished, you should see this:
Under the words “Theme installed successfully,” you will see an option to immediately click on “Activate” to activate the theme. You may activate it from this screen, or you can navigate back to “Appearance”, click on “Themes”, and there you will see all your theme choices, including Regency.
Click on the Regency icon and then “Save and Activate”. Here is what your new screen will look like:*Note - in the top yellow bar, you are being instructed to install the WooThemes Updater plugin, but THIS IS NOT NECESSARY, so please ignore this suggestion.

Now you are ready to proceed to Step Two.

But before you move to Step 2, let’s take a detour. Maybe you prefer to upload your new Regency files via FTP instead of Wordpress. What would you do? Follow these instructions:

b. Uploading Via Filezilla (SKIP THIS STEP if you have already successfully installed your Regency theme via Wordpress) - Now you will learn how to upload your files using the Filezilla client.
First, BACKUP YOUR FILES! This is always the safest thing to do.

Now OPEN FILEZILLA to see this window:Fill in your FTP Credentials, like in the image shown below:
Now “CLICK QUICKCONNECT” and Filezilla will load your website. Here is how it will look:
Now use the right side panel to navigate to your themes folder. In the example above, the theme folder is public_html/wp-content/themes/, however, not all web hosting have public_html, it may be something different in your server.

After your themes/ folder is open, use the left side panel to navigate to the place where you have extracted the theme folder. In this example, the extracted theme folder is on the desktop.

Drag the extracted theme folder into your web hosting:**Note – you may be asked if you want to overwrite files and/or folder. Tick the option to "Always use this action" and click on "Ok.” Then wait until all files are uploaded.

If you prefer uploading your Regency files via Internet Explorer “ftp” you will use a slightly different method.

First, open a browser and type your ftp address into the address bar like so.
You will see this popup, asking you to insert your user name and password to open your ftp files.
When you insert the correct username and password into the screen, your browser window will open to show your ftp root files. (See below) Scroll right on the navigation bar and find the word “Page”. Click on it to open a drop-down box like the one below. At the bottom of the drop-down click “Open FTP Site”.ALMOST DONE! After you click “Open FTP Site,” you’ll see this popup for the second time.
Insert your user name and password again and you will get this screen:
Scroll to the folder you will use for your Regency site. For example, if your site is called “My Shop,” scroll to that folder. Double-click on it to find three main folders inside: WP-Admin, WP-Content, and WP-Includes.

Double-click on WP-Content and find “Themes” inside. Double click on “Themes” to open it then find Regency on your desktop.

BUT WAIT! Since you’re uploading via FTP you won’t insert the entire Regency folder into the root files. You must UNZIP IT.

Double-click on Regency and drag the Regency folder inside (see below) into the YourShopName>WP-Content>Themes> folder in the FTP files.
Once you drag the files have finished copying, CLOSE THE FTP ROOT FILES FOLDER AND THE PAGE FILES FOLDER OF YOUR FTP FILES, then go to your Wordpress dashboard, navigate to Themes, and see that Regency is one of your theme choices. Click on the Regency theme icon, then click “Save and Activate”.

5. How to install bundled plugins

Then, if you want to install the Pre-Packaged plugins (as Essential Grid, Visual Composer, ecc...), you need first get the ZIP files from the ThemeForest package and then put them in theme/plugins directory from theme folder. Only after this action, you can install the plugins from "Install" link, as we will explain in this page.